Hangaku Mae journal

First day of High School


Today I met the most gorgeous boy in School. He is in my classroom, and the moment I saw him, my entire body trembled. Sakamo Ryu... Even his name sounds pretty.
I am going to make him mine. He even knows Tomoe-chan and tomorrow my entire class will go watch her show from backstage.
Hojo-chan seemed very interested in him, and I saw him looking at her way too much. I will need to play my cards right.
Later, I made a surprise for him with Tomiko-chan, and we had dinner with him at Takechi-sama’s restaurant. He looked absolutely gorgeous in casual clothes.
We went to watch a movie at his house and slept there. He escaped me this time, but I will have another chance to get him into my bed.
He kissed me goodnight, and it was so amazing that I think I told him I loved him... I am doomed...


Second day


Today I talked with Sakamo-kun about our kiss. He hadn’t confessed his feelings to me yet, but he seemed happy to be with me.
The girls in School kept on trying to kill me with their eyes every time they saw me clinging to Sakamo-kun’s arm.
At lunch, we went to the back of the gym to talk, and I got the greatest kiss ever. I think I felt Magic coming from him, and my body reacted to it, but it was so strong that I couldn’t handle it and I fainted. He gives amazing kisses, that’s for sure!
At night, we all went to see Tomoe-chan concert, and I found out one more secret about Sakamo-kun-kun. He is an amazing fighter!
Tomoe-chan called me to join her on stage when she was singing, and I sang in front of thousands of people. That was amazing! My dream is within my reach, and I will become a singer just like her.
After the concert, I gave my first autograph to a fan, and we went to have a drink in a comedy club, where Takechi-sama performed. Funny guy, that one!
While going to Sakamo-kun’s home, he told me he was going to meet a scary woman in the morning. I don’t know who she was, but she seemed important to him. I wonder who she is.


Saturday


I was with Tomoe-chan and Tomiko-chan all day, doing volunteer work. Takechi-sama went with us as well, and he even did a stand-up comedy act for the elderly. Some of them laughed until they cried.
I tried to call Sakamo-kun, and surprisingly, he invited me to a date tomorrow. I could barely believe it, and then Tomoe-chan told me he had never invited a girl on a date, and that could only mean that he liked me! Please come quickly, Sunday. I can barely wait to have Sakamo-kun in my arms!


Sunday


I didn’t sleep much because of how nervous I was about my date. He arrived on time, and by the Gods, he looked astonishing!
We walked in the park, and he told me he was a friend of the Imperial family. It seems they were the ones that told him about my family. He didn’t seem worried. I guess I was the one worrying. He knows the Imperial Family, and he spent the entire Saturday with them! That is awesome!
During our date, he told me he is always being followed by those guys in dark blue suits, and it has to do with his part-time work. I still don’t know what he does, but it sounded important.
After lunch, I went to my meeting, and he went home because he had work to do.
I got an agent, and I am going to record my first album next week. If everything goes well, my singing career might start sooner than I was expecting.
My plan is taking shape. Doing tours or having excuses to go to other cities will give me more opportunities to get rid of my enemies. Mom and dad, I will take care of them all.
At dinner, I was with Tomoe-chan, Tomiko-chan, and Takechi-sama, waiting for Sakamo-kun. When he got there, he gave me a necklace as a gift for his girlfriend. I nearly passed out, not because he called me girlfriend, but because that necklace contained a piece of a Magical Orb.
He said he bought that necklace in China from an old lady, and that crystal changed colour according to my mood. He didn’t seem to recognise it, but I know what that crystal is.
He invited me to go with him to a fundraising event organised by the Empress. I was going with my family, and he gave me a good excuse to not go with them.
We went to his house to see a movie. I saw his office, and I felt like dying of sadness. He had handmade drawings in there of Mermaids, Elfians, and Fairies. One Mermaid looked like my mother. I had to make a major effort so that he didn’t notice. He thought I was sad because of the drawing of his mother, and he was an orphan, when in fact, I am also an orphan, and all those drawings reminded me of my long-lost home.
I got the feeling that Tomoe-chan likes girls. I got worried when she said she was going to sleep in his room, but then I noticed he had two single beds, and they were not going to sleep together.


Monday


In the morning, I found out about Sakamo-kun’s part-time job. It has something to do with the simulacrum that is going to happen next week, and he says he is paid very well to handle information, and it appears to be something so big that not even the computers of the Earthquake Research Institute seem to be able to do it.
When we arrived at School, there were dozens of reporters and TV stations there, and they were waiting for me! They tried to ask some questions, but I didn’t have much to say because I am not sure if I will do a good job with the album.
The day at School was crazy, with a lot of students wanting to talk to me and asking many questions about what I did at the concert with Tomoe-chan.
There was one guy that annoyed me so much that I just wanted to split his head in two, but I couldn’t because now I must be careful not to cause any sort of scandal.
Two girls seemed very interested in Sakamo-kun, and he didn’t shake them off as he was supposed to do. I am his girlfriend. He doesn’t need any other girls grabbing his arms and squeezing their tits against him like those two were doing! I need to squeeze his neck for him to learn!
When we went to Gym class, I caught a glimpse of Sakamo-kun’s muscles. I am sure I was drooling when I saw him doing push-ups on the bars.
Our new gymnastics Teacher mocked him when he said he was a Shinto follower and that he refused to take his pendant. I didn’t have time to check that pendant, but he said it was important to his faith.
The entire class got angry with the Teacher, and even more when Sakamo-kun left because he refused to take off his pendant, and we all left the class.
Someone broke into my locker at the gym and destroyed my School uniform and shoes, but at that time, I didn’t know who it was.
Hojo-chan lent me her extra clothes, or else I would have to leave with just my gym clothes.
When we left the locker room, three girls threw balls at me, but I easily grabbed the balls, and I recognised them. Two of the girls that were all over Sakamo-kun in the morning, and I was convinced they were the ones who ripped my clothes.
I hit them in their stomachs so hard with the balls that they threw up and I warned them to stay away from me and Sakamo-kun. I hope they don’t do as I say so that I can punish them again. Those dumb maggots!
When I was going with Sakamo-kun to have lunch, that stupid Tashiro Saito grabbed my arm, saying that if he was with me, those girls wouldn’t try to hit me with those balls.
I got a funny feeling that it was some sort of stupid plan of them to annoy me. I grabbed his balls, and I almost took them off. Seriously, I have no idea why that dumbass thought he could go after me and not pay the consequences!
School ended, and I went to the recording studio. I think I did amazingly. I didn’t have to use my ‘Mermaids Voice’, but it seems my singing was enough to baffle my agent and the producer that was there to hear me sing.
I had dinner with Tomoe-chan, and I told her and Sakamo-kun that I was going home to rest my voice.
But tonight I won’t sleep. I have a mission. One of Hangaku Tokimasa’s Dark Mages returned home from his business trip. He is the last one in Japan who is still alive. I took care of all the others, but this guy had been living in America for the last five years, and he returned this weekend. I have memorised his security guys’ schedule, and I know where all the cameras are. Tonight, he dies, and his Magical Orbs will be mine. I need to refill my stock of Magic because I still have some targets and I can’t die now because I exhausted my Magic.


Tuesday


At three in the morning, I looked at the moon, waiting for the clouds to hide it. I had to take the last train near my house with no one noticing me leaving, and I have been waiting for one hour for the clouds to appear. I didn’t want to spend my Magic on creating fog to hide my presence because I wanted to save it for an emergency and for the next part of my plan. The forecast said that tonight would be cloudy, so I waited.
As soon as the moon was behind a cloud, I climbed over the wall. I knew I had just a few seconds before the camera on the corner below the window of my target returned to its initial position, and I got under it just in the nick of time.
I threw a ball of Water Magic at it, and then I made it evaporate using Fire Magic, to create a thick fog right in front of the lens. That way, the guy that was checking the cameras would think it was a natural fog that would clear soon.
As usual, the office window was open, and that was my way in. Carefully, I walked from the office to the corridor that would lead to my target’s bedroom. The door was unlocked, and I got in.
That piece of crap was sleeping peacefully. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought he was just a businessman that was tired from another day of work, when I knew what he was up to until he returned from America.
I used my ‘Mermaids Voice’ to put him under my spell. He got up from bed, still half asleep, and opened his safe inside the closet, then went back to bed again.
I checked the contents and found a bag with Magical Orbs. I took it, together with all the money that I would donate to charity anonymously, and closed the safe again.
I created a tiny ball of water in his throat and watched as he suffocated to death while I was holding him down. He stared at me and turned pale. I guess I was smiling, and he got scared, not only because he couldn’t breathe, but because he realised he was being murdered.
In his last moments, he heard me saying, “Payback. You killed in Azurath, so now I kill you.”
His eyes opened wide, and he tried to get free with the last strength he could muster, but it was no use.
As silently as I entered, I got out of that dreadful house and made my way back to the street.
A few blocks away, a taxi was passing by, and it took me to the centre of the city. From there, another taxi took me near my house, and I made the last dozen metres on foot. I still had time to sleep for a couple of hours before getting up for School.
During my quick breakfast, I told my parents I was going to the fundraising event with Sakamo-kun, and they kept on asking questions about him.
As if I wasn’t counting on that, as I was counting on their frowns at each of my answers.
I showed them my necklace that he gave me as a gift to test their reaction, and as expected, Hangaku no Maki was interested in the silver and semi-precious stones in it, but Hangaku Tokimasa was very interested in the piece of the Magical Orb. I could tell he recognised it immediately for what it was, of course, that bastard killer of Spirits!
I had to agree to invite Sakamo-kun to meet them today for dinner. It is at such short notice that I am not sure if he can.
I was in a terrible mood when I arrived at School, and then I saw that bastard, Tashiro Saito, shouting at Sakamo-kun. I slapped him so hard that he almost got knocked out.
His stupid shadow threatened me as if a doormat like her would have a chance if I wanted to hurt her.
The Principal wanted to meet us in the middle of the morning. Me, because of the mess those reporters were causing in front of the School gates. Sakamo-kun, because of what happened in the gym. As usual, he escaped gloriously from the scolding.
After School, I went to another recording session, and when finished, I returned home to take a bath, get dressed, and wait for Sakamo-kun.
When he arrived, my heart stopped. He looked amazing in that suit. He easily conquered my mother with the gift he brought, but then I noticed a strange thing.
Hangaku Tokimasa and him. They knew each other from somewhere. The way they were talking about his injuries was suspicious.
Tokimasa told me it was in a car accident when I could smell the Magic in him after another of his trips to Azurath, and hearing Sakamo-kun and him talking, I could swear Sakamo-kun had something to do with it.
During dinner, my suspicions only got worse. They hated each other. I am not sure why, but maybe Sakamo-kun is a rival in the Consortium. I had to force myself to remain calm because I couldn’t believe that the man I love was one of them.
Then, Hangaku Tokimasa offered him money to leave me, which he accepted. I thought he was going to leave me for real, and he wasn’t one of them, but then, he invited me to live with him and asked for another check for future living expenses.
Part of me was happy because I was going to live with him, and a tiny bit of me thought he could be doing that to annoy his rival.
Either way, I accepted because I wanted to keep an eye on him. If he was just a man that hated his future father-in-law, it would all be okay, but if he was with the Consortium, I knew what I had to do.
I would hate it and be forever miserable, but I won’t leave a Dark Mage alive. I will kill them all, no matter who they are.
I hope you are not one of them, Sakamo Ryu, because I love you deeply.
May the Kamis guide my path.


The real END